Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:23:21 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:32 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> Is it the idea that
>> the flight-control software should be developed by welfare recipients?
> 
> It is the idea that flight-control software will be developed
> by paid programmers ("they need to eat!"), whatever the license or
> "openness" can be.

I definitely agree with "paid." The rest is easy who pays, how and for
what. (:-))

> I would feel much better if people understood that each of us
> can make a living when the others can do that, too.

So, basically it reads as follows: because our economical system cannot
handle it, we should turn to education, propaganda, religion to convince
people to share. I.e. a charity-driven developing rather than
welfare-driven one. Is it better?
 
>> Scientific questions aren't decided by voting. Everything depends on who is
>> the priest in the cathedral.
> 
> The "priest" may well depend on votes.

That would be a MP. A "priest" reports only to God or His personal
representative, the Dow Jones Industrial Average... (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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